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WAR 
WORK 
FOR 
WOMEN 



Compiled by 

THE INFORMATION DEPARTMENT 
of the WOMAN'S COMMITTEE of the 
COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE 




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WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

1918 






The following list has been prepared by the 
Information Department of the Woman's Com- 
mittee of the Council of National Defense in re- 
sponse to requests which have come from the 
many women who wjsh to find the kind of war 
service for which they' are best fitted. It includes 
occupations, both paid and volunteer, now open 
to women in war work, and the addresses to which 
application may be made for further information. 

The list is not considered authoritative in any 
sense, as rapidly changing conditions make it 
impossible to keep out inaccuracies. The infor- 
mation given is not definite in every instance) 
but it is the best available at the present time. 

For purposes of convenient reference, there ii 
appended a list of the State Chairmen of the 
Woman's Committee of the Council of Nationa. 
Defense, a list of the Divisional Secretaries of th( 
Civil Service Commission, and a list of the Di 
visional Headquarters of the American Red Cross 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



1. American Service. 

2. Foreign Service. 

3. Vocational Training Courses. 

4. State Chairmen of the Woman's Committee of 

the Council of National Defense. 

5. Divisional Headquarters of the United States 

Civil Service Commission. 

6. Divisional Headquarters of the American Red 

Cross. 



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WAR WORK FOR WOMEN. 



AMERICAN SERVICE. 

[Revised June 15, 1918.] 
Accountants. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Salary: Senior accountant, $2,200 to 
$4,200; junior accountant, $1,200 to 
$2,000. 
Requirements: Graduation from high 
school and at least two years' expert ex- 
perience. 
Agricultural economics, specialist in. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Salary: Grade 1, $1,800 or over a year; 
grade 2, $1,500 to $1,800 a year. 
Americanization. 

Refer to Committee on Educational Propa- 
ganda, Woman's Committee, Council of Na- 
tional Defense. 
OrU. S. Bureau of Education, Washington, D. 0. 
Athletic instructors. 

Refer to Y. W. C. A., 600 Lexington Avenue, 
New York, N. Y. 
Kind of work: Leaders in physical recre- 
ation. 
Requirements: Age, 25-36; religion, Prot- 
estant Evangelical. 
Or Playground and Recreation Association of 
America, 1 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 
Aviators. 

No demand for Government service. 
Business managers. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Salary, $2,000 to $3,000. 
Kind of work: To originate and execute 
improved office methods. 
Canteen workers. 

Refer to local Red Cross Divisional Canteen 
director. Volunteer work. 



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Censors. 

Refer to Censorship Board, 461 Washington 
Street, New York, N. Y. 

Salary: From $1,200. 

Requirements: Knowledge of one or more 
foreign languages, especially Scandina- 
vian; American citizenship. 
Clerks. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission, 

Stenographers and typewriters, $1,000 to 
$1,200 a year. 

Typewriters operators, $1,000 to $1,200 a 
year. 

General clerks, $1,000 to $1,100 a year. 

Index and catalogue clerks, $1,100 to 
$1,200 a year. 

Clerks qualified in business administra- 
tion, $1,200 to $1,500 a year. 

Calculating machine operators, $900 to 
$1,200. 

Schedule clerks, $1,400 to $1,500 a year. 

Production clerks, not more than $1,500 a 
year. 

Clerks qualified in statistics or accounting, 
$1,100 to $1,800 a year. 

Statisticians, $1,800 a year. 

Multigraph operators, $1,000 to $1,200 a 
year. 

Blue-print file clerks, $1,000 to $1,500 a 
year. 

File clerks, $1,000 to $1,200— one year's 
experience in filing or two year's ex- 
perience in filing by decimal system. 

Editorial clerk, $1,200 to $1,600 a year. 

Clerks qualified in modem languages, 
$900 to $1,200 a year. 

Coder, $900 to $1,200 a year. 

Bookkeeper-typewriter, clerk-bookkeeper, 
$1,000 to $1,200 a year. 

Freight-car record clerks, $1,200 a year. 

Map colorist, $720 to $900 a year. 

Munition loading plant clerks. 

Freight rate clerks. 

Passenger rate clerks. 

Ekspress rate clerks. 

Steel plant clerks. 

Machining plant clerks. 

Powder plant clerks. 



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College women in war service. 

Refer to Women's Collegiate Section, United 
States Employment Service,' 1410 Pennsyl- 
vania Avenue, Washington, D. C. 
Craftswomen. 

Refer to Surgeon General's Office, War De- 
partment, Washington, or Bureau of Nursing, 
American Red Cross, Washington. 

Volunteer, trained women needed for di- 
versional work in convalescent hospitals. 
(Diversional occupations: Woodcarving, 
toy-making, basketry, pottery, mechan- 
ical drawing, clay modeling, rag rug 
weaving, etc.) 
Dietitians. 

Refer to Surgeon General's Office, Food Divi- 
sion. 
Or local branch of Food Administration. 
Or Y. W. C. A., 600 Lexington Avenue, New 

York, N.Y. 
Or local hospital. 
Domestic science experts. 

Refer to Y. W. C. A., 600 Lexington Avenue, 
NewYork, N. Y. 
Kind of work: Cafeteria management. 
Requirements: Age, 30-50; religion, 
Protestant Evangelical. 
Or Department of Agriculture. 
Or Food Administration. 
Or divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission 
Draftsmen. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 

States Civil Service Commission 
Artist draftsmen: 

Salary, $1,200 to $1,400. 
Requirements: Age 20-50 years. At least 
two years experience as artist or artist 
dratsman engaged in illustrating work. 
Kind of work: Designing of cover pages, 
retouching photographs, preparation of 
pen and ink drawings from photographs, 
etc. 
Copyist draftsmen; 

Salary, $2 to $3.44 per diem. 
Requirements: High school or common 
school education with experience as a 
tracer or copyist draftsman. 



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Draftsmen — Continued . 
Electrical, or ship: 

Salary, $4 to $6.40 per diem. 
Engineering: 

Salary, $3.04 to $7.04 per diem. 
Elevator operators. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Salary, $720. 
Entertainers. 

Refer to Playground and Recreation Associa- 
tion of America, 1 Madison Avenue, New 
York, N. Y. 

Kind of work: Entertainments in camp 
and in camp communities. 
Or bureau of registration, Y. W. C. A., 4 West 

58th Street, New York, N. Y. 
Or Y. M. C. A., 9th and Pennsylvania Avenue 
NW., Washington, D. C. 
Employment management work in factories. 
Refer to Employment Management Division 
of War Industries Board, 606 Council of De- 
fense Building, Washington, D. C. 
Salary: Fixed by individual factories. 
Kind of work: Intelligent supervision of 
women workers in Government factories 
to the end that employment may be 
stabilized and labor troubles eliminated. 
Extension work. 

Boys' and Girls' Clubs in connection with 

food production. 
Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Salary, $1,500 to $2,200. 
Requirements: Graduation from college 
or graduation from high school with ad- 
ditional field work equivalent in time 
to a college course. 
Factory and other industrial workers. 

Refer to Department of Labor, Woman's Divi- 
sion. 
Farm work. 

Refer to Department of Agriculture. 

Or Federal Food Administration. 

Or Director of Extension Work, State College 

of Agriculture. 
Or State Home Demonstration Agent, State 

College of Agriculture. 
Or Woman's Land Army of America, 19 West 
Forty-fourth Street, New York, N. Y. 

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Field examiner. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Entrance salary, $1,200 to $1,800. 
Kind of work: Work in Washington or in 
the field investigating cases for awards 
to dependents of soldiers and sailors 
when injured. 
Gas mask plant vsrorker. 

Refer to Long Island Gas Defense Plant, Sec- 
ond Street and Jackson Avenue, Long Island 
City, N. Y. 
Hostess houses. 

Refer to Y. W. C. A., 600 Lexington Avenue, 
New York, N. Y. 
Hostess directors, recreational secretaries, 
emergency secretaries, cafeteria direc- 
tors, bookkeepers, cashiers. 
Inspector of small arms. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Law clerk ''counsel." 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Salary, $1,000 to $1,800. 
Requirements: Graduation from law school 
or admission to the bar, and experience. 
Land law clerk. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Salary, $900 to $1,600. 
Requirements: Graduation from high 
school and at least two years' experience 
as law clerk. 
Librarians. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 

Work: Index and catalogue clerks and li- 
brary assistants. 
Or American Library Association, Library of 
Congress, Washington, D. C. 
Work in cantonment libraries, paid and 
volunteer. 

Marketing, scientific assistant in. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Masseuses. 

(See Reconstruction aides.) 

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Matrons. 

Refer to Y. W. C. A., 600 Lexington Avenue, 

New York, N. Y. 
Kind of work : Matrons in girls' boarding 
houses. 
Or Committee on Protective Work for Girls, 
Commission on Training Camp Activities, 
War Department, Washington, D. C. 

Kind of work: Matron in detention homes 
in camp cities. 
Or Red Cross local divisional headquarters. 
Work in Red Cross houses connected with 
base hospitals. 
Or divisional headquarters of the United States 
Civil Service Commission. 
Field matrons, Indian Service. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Salary: $600 to $840. 

Requirements: Must answer questions re- 
garding experience in — 

1. Cookery. 

2. Household sanitation. 

3. Sewing. 

4. Care of sick. 

5. Care and feeding of infants. 

6. Home gardening. 

7. Social work. 
Medical interne. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Messengers. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Girl messengers (under 16 years), salary 

$40 per month. 
Messenger (over 16), salary $60 per month- 
Kind of work: Messenger service in Gov- 
ernment departments. 
Musicians. 

Refer to Playground and Recreation Associ- 
ation of America, 1 Madison Avenue, New 
York, N. Y. 
Kind of work: Entertainments in camp 
and all other community activities. 
Or Red Cross local divisional headquarters. 
A limited number is needed for work in 
the Red Cross convalescent houses in 
connection with military hospitals. 



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Motor service. 

Refer to American Red Cross, Motor Corps. 
Requirements: Work volunteer. All ex- 
penses paid and car donated by worker. 
Or State chairman, Woman's Committee, Coun- 
cil of National Defense. 
Or divisional headquarters of the United States 
Civil Service Commission, 
Munitions -workers. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Nurses. 

Refer to Committee on Nursing, General Medi- 
cal Board, Council of National Defense, 
Washington, D. C. 

Kind of work: All nursing and nurses' train- 
ing. 
Or Red Cross local divisional headquarters. 
Or Army Nurse Corps, Office of Surgeon 
General, War Department, Washington, D. C. 
Requirements: Age, 21 to 45; unmarried; 
graduation from accredited training 
school ; citizens of the United States or 
one of our allied countries. 
Certain requirements waived for the period 
of the war emergency. 
Home defense nurses: 

Refer to Bureau of Nursing, Red Cross 
divisional headquarters. 

Relief work in hospitals; Helping visit- 
ing nurse; Infant welfare work. 
Practical nurses: 

Refer to Chairman of National Organiza- 
tion for Public Health Nursing, 615 Nine- 
teenth Street NW., Washington, D. C. 
Kind of work: Prevention of disease 
and care of sick in homes of civilian 
population. 
Nurses (trained) Panama Canal Service, In- 
dian Service, and Philippine Islands Service. 
Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Requirements: Graduation from school for 
. trained nurses plus at least three years' 
experience in hospital. 
Patent OflB.ce, assistant examiner in. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Salary, $1,500. 



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Photographers. 

Refer to Chief of Ordnance, War Department, 
Washington, D. C. 
Salary, $720 to $1,200 a year. 

Requirements: One year's experience as 
photographer in the operation of a view 
camera or a photostat machine. 
Or divisional headquarters of the United States 
Civil Service Commission. 
Physicians. 

Refer to American Women's Hospitals, 637 
Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 
Duties: To take the places of men who 
have gone to the front. 
Or United States Civil Service Commission. 
Physical training directors. 

Refer to Bureau of Nursing at Red Cross 
divisional headquarters. 
Work paid or volunteer with industrial em- 
ployees. 
Printers. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission, 
Salary, 50 cents an hour for hand com- 
positors, 60 cents an hour for linotype or 
monotype operators. 
Publicity experts: 

Refer to local branches of war organizations. 
Or local newspapers. 

Or local Woman's Committee, Council of 
National Defense. 
Registrars: 

Refer to Schools Section of Signal Corps, 
Washington, D. C. 

Kind of work: OlQBce management and 
keeper of school records. 
Or divisional headquarters of the United States 
Civil Service CcJmmission. 
Reconstruction aides: 

Refer to supervisor, reconstruction aides, 

Surgeon General's Office, War Department, 

Washir^ton, D. C. 

Salary: $50 per month and commutation. 

Work with wounded soldiers in base 

hospitals. 
Requirements: Good education and train- 
ing in massage, orthopedics, or handi- 
craft for wounded soldiers. 
Or First National Service School, Women's 
Service (Inc.), 1606 Twentieth Street NW., 
Washington, D. C. 



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Besearch assistant. 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Salary, $1,200 to $1,680. 
Requirements: Education equivalent to 
two or more years of college work plus 
at least one year's experience in indus- 
trial or sociological research. 
Rural mail carriers: 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Ci\il Service Commission. 
Scientists: 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 

States Civil Service Commission. 
Bacteriologists: 

Salary: $1,800 and upward. 
Requirements: Graduation from college, 
which includes a course in biology and 
at least two years' experience. 
Bacteriological assistant: 
Salary: $1,000 to $1,200. 
Requirements: Two years' college train- 
ing, or two years' experience in a 
chemical or bacteriological laboratory. 
Junior bacteriologists: 

Salary: $1,440 to $1,800. 
Requirements: Graduation from college, 
which includes or is supplemented by 
two y^ars of laboratory courses. 
Bacteriological technician: 

Salary: $1,200 to $1,800. 
Bio-chemist: 

Salary: $1,800 to $3,000. 
Requirements: Age 25-40. Graduation 
from college, including course in chem- 
istry. 
Chemist's aid: 

Salary: $720 to $840. 
Associate chemist: 

Salary, $1,800 to $2,500. 
Clinical psychiatrist and psychotherapist, 
assistant: 
Salary: $1,200 and maintenance. 
Entomology, preparator in: 

Salary: $720 a year. 
Fermentation mycology, assistant in: 

Salary: $1,200 a year. 
Finger-print experts. 
Forest pathology, assistant in. 



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Scientists — ^Oontinued . 

Geologic aid, assistant geologist: 

Salary:' $60 a month to $1,500 a year. 
Herbariiun assistant: 

Requirements: Two years' experience in 
botanical work, including preparation 
of material and its arrangement in the 
herbariima. 
Salary, $900 to $1,200. 
Laboratory apprentice: 
Salary: $540 to $660. 

Requirements: Graduation from high 
school. 
Laboratory assistant: 
Salary: 

Junior grade, $1,000. 
Senior aid, $900. 
Junior aid, $720. 
Requirements: Graduation from high 
school; must show different amounts 
of college work, according to grade 
applied for. 
Laboratory assistant: 

Salary: $1,080 to $1,320. 
Requirements: Age, 20-35. Graduation 
from high school and from college. 
Physical laboratory helper: 
Salary, $600 to $840. 

Requirements: Experience in physical or 
chemical laboratory. 
Laboratory helper in soil physics: 
Salary: $1,000. 

Requirements: Common-school education 
and either additional schooling in chem- 
istry or physics or at least two months of 
practical experience in a soil-testing 
laboratory. 
Plant pathology: 

Salary: $1,200 to $2,400. 
Vassar College has plans for the training of 
women along this line. 
Plant Industry (Bureau of) , preparator in nem- 
atology: 

Salary: $660 to $1,000 a year. 
Physicists (assistant): 

Salary: $1,200 to $1,800. 
Requirements: Graduation from college 
and two years' experience in physical 
metallurgy or two years' post graduation 
study therein. 



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Scientists — Continued . 

Chemist's assistant in gas-defense service: 

Refer to: Surgeon General's Office, War 
Department, Washington, D. C. 
Chemist's assistant in Division of Laboratories: 
Refer to: Surgeon General's Office, War 

Department, Washington, D. C. 
For other scientific positions, refer also to 
General Medical Board of the Council of 
National Defense, Washington, D. C. 
Secret Service: 

The Department of Justice has on only very 
few occasions and in very special cases ap- 
pointed women to its investigative force. 
The department has now about 15,000 ap- 
plications on file, among which are about 
200 women applicants. 
Secretaries, industrial: 

Refer to Y. W. C. A., 600 Lexington Avenue, 
NewYork, N. Y. 
Requirements: A human understanding 
and a very human interest; a knowledge 
of the actual industrial conditions to 
to-day with an industrial viewpoint; a 
theoretical background of economic and 
sociological training; a personality to 
which girls will quickly respond and a 
sympathetic sharing in the purpose of 
the organization. 
Salary: $1,000 to $1,600. 
Or Red Cross local divisional headquarters. 
Work in Red Cross houses connected with 

base hospitals. 
Work, volunteer or paid. 
Social workers: 

Refer to State chairman of the Women's Com- 
mittee, Council of National Defense or Red 
Cross local divisional headquarters, depart- 
ment of civilian relief. 
Kind of work: Assisting families of sol- 
diers. 
Or Committee on Protective Work for Girls, 
Nineteenth and G Streets, Washington, 
D. C. 
Kind of work: Paid positions as field 
agents, probation officers, supervisors of 
dance halls, etc. 
Requirements: Previous training in social 
work. 



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Social workers — Continued. 

Or Y. M. C. A., 124 East Twenty-eighth 
Street, New York, N. Y. 
Kind of work: Community work in camp 
cities. 
Or Y. W. C. A., 600 Lexington Avenue, New 
York, N. Y. 
Kind of work : Work with girls' clubs and 
in hostess houses in camp communities. 
Stenographers. 

See clerks, yoemen. 
Surgeon, acting assistant: 

Refer to : Divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Ser\'ice Commission. 
Salary: $1,800 to $2,500. 
Requirements: Age 21-45; degree from 
medical school of recognized standing; 
experience in infant welfare work, school 
and community hygiene work, etc. 
Surgeon (contract surgeon in the Army): 
Refer to Surgeon General's Office, War De- 
partment, Washington, D. C. 
Salary: Same as that of a first lieutenant, 
with first lieutenant's commutation and 
quarters. 
Requirements: M. D. degree. 
Teachers of the blind (See Reconstruction 
aides): 
Refer to Red Cross, of Boston, Mass. 
Or Red Cross Institute, New York, N. Y. 
Or Perkins Institute for the Blind, Boston. 
Or State School for Blind. 
Teachers of home economies': 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 

States Civil Service Commission. 
Or Department of Agriculture. 
Or Federal Food Administration. 
Teachers in Indian Service: 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Salary: $600 to $720. 
Teachers in Philippine Islands service: 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Salary: $1,000 to $2,000. 
Teachers, radio classes. 

Refer to Federal Board of Vocational Educa- 
tion, Ouray Building, Washington, D. C. 



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Telegraph operators: 

Refer to divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Western Union and Postal Telegraph Cos. 
provide training schools for recruits. 
For information, refer to respective 
companies. 
Or division traffic superintendent at head- 
quarters in New York, N. Y., Chicago, 111., 
Omaha, Nebr., Atlanta, Ga., Denver, Colo., 
San Francisco, Cal., Dallas, Tex., or to the 
chief operator in the nearest telegraph office. 
Salary after training: $50 to $75 per month. 
5,000 operators needed in the United 
States. 
Telephone operators: 

Refer to application bureau of nearest tele- 
phone office. 
Or divisional headquarters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Translators: 

Refer to War Trade Board, Washington, D. C. 
Or United States Civil Service. 
Or Foreign News Division of the Bureau of 
Public Information, 235 West Twenty-third 
Street, New York. 
Or War College, Washington, D. C. 
Or Censorship Board, 461 Washington Street, 
New York, N. Y. 
Requirements: Expert knowledge of mod- 
ern languages. 
Limited number needed. 
Wireless te^ggraph operators: 

Little demand for women as radio operators 
either in the Navy or commercial life. So 
far only one woman has been appointed. 
Position secured by competitive examina- 
tion. Women are ad^dsed to study Morse 
telegraphy instead of radio, inasmuch as 
there is a shortage of competent telegraphers. 
Welfare executive secretaries: 

Refer to divisional headquai'ters of the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
Entrance salary: $2,400 to $2,800. 
Quota filled for the present. 
Yeomen: 

Refer to Naval Board, 1410 H Street NW., 
Washington, D. C. 
Kind of work: Expert stenographers. 



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FOREIGN SERVICE. 

Canteen workers: 

Refer to Y. M. C. A., Woman's Overseas Sec- 
tion, 347 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 
Requirements: Age 30-45; self reliance, 
good health, and willingness to endure 
loneliness and harships, and to obey 
orders. 
Or head of personnel, Foreign Service, Red 

Cross local divisional headquarters. 
Or Intercollegiate Committee on Women's War 
Work Abroad, 106 East Fifty-second Street, 
New York, N. Y. 
Requirements: Candidates must be be- 
tween 28 and 40 years of age and of 
excellent health and character; must 
enlist for one year, and pay own ex- 
penses, or be financed to the amount of 
$2,000 a year; must subscribe to all 
governmental and association rulings. 
Clerks. 

Refer to Red Cross local divisional headquar- 
ters. 
Or Y. W. C. A., 600 Lexington Avenue, New 
York, N. Y. 
Work paid and volunteer. 
Requirements: Age, 25-40; no near rela- 
tive in the service; citiz^ship neces- 
sary; 12 months' minimum service in 
France, Belgium, or Italy. 
College women in war service. 

Refer to Women's Collegiate Section, United 
States Employment Service, 1410 Pennsyl- 
vania Avenue, Washington, D. C. 
Craftswomen. 

Refer to Bureau of Nursing, Red Cross local 
division headquarters. 
Trained women needed for diversional 
work in Red Cross houses connected 
with military hospitals. Diversional 
occupations: Woodcarving, toymaking, 
basketry, pottery, mechanical drawing, 
clay modeling, rug weaving, etc .) Work 
paid or volimteer. 

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Dietitians. 

Refer to Mrs. Gertrude Athertoiij American 
President "Le Bien-Etre du Blesse," 360 
Madiflon Avenue, eighth floor, New York, 
N. Y. 
Or Y. W. C. A., 600 Lexington Avenue, New- 
York. N. Y. 
Or American Red Cross. 
Or Y. M. C. A., Ninth Street and Pennsylvania 
Avenue, Washington, D. C. 
Farm work in France. 

Refer to American Committee for Devastated 
France, 16 East Thirty-ninth Street, New 
York, N. Y. 

Requirements: Knowledge of French and 

agriculture. 
Work: Volimteer. 
Blindergartners. 

Refer to American Branch of International 
Kindergarten Union, 30 High Street, 
Springfield, Mass. 
Duties: Work with children in devastated 
districts of France. 
Laboratory assistant. 

Refer to Army Medical Department, War 
Department, Washington. 

Salary, $50, \vith commutation and quar- 
ters. 
Requirements: Scientific training or two 
years' laboratory experience; age limit, 
45. 
Kind of work: Base hospital service over- 
seas. 
Matrons. 

Refer to Divisional Bureaus of Personnel, 
American Red Cross, 
Volunteers preferred. 
Requirements: At least 25 years of age; no 
relative in the service; willingness to 
serve six months if a volunteer, or one 
year if paid. 

Motor service. 

Refer to Motor Corps, Red Cross local divisional 
headquarters. 

Requirements: Work volunteer. All ex- 
penses paid and car donated by worker. 



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Nurses. 

Refer to Committee on Nursing, General 
Medical Board, Council of National Defense, 
Washington, D. C. 
Or Department of Nursing, Red Cross local 
divisional headquarters. 
Physicians. 

Refer to American Women's Hospitals, 637 
Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 
Duties: Overseas service. 
Reconstruction aides. 

Refer to Surgeon General 's Office, War Depart- 
ment, Washington, D, C. 
Kind of work: Special massage, orthopedic 
care of wounded soldiers; handicraft 
work for wounded soldiers. 
Social service. 

Refer to Committee for the Care of French 
Mothers and Children, 505 Fifth Avenue, 
New York, N. Y. 
Kind of work: Social work with French 

families. 
Requirements: Good education, ability to 
pay expenses, some knowledge of 
French, 4 to 10 months' preparation. 
Must be Protestant. 
Or Social Service Section, Red Cross Local 

Divisional Headquarters. 
Or Y. W. C. A., 600 Lexington Avenue, New 
York, N. Y. 
Requirements: Age 35 to 50; training in 
social ser\dce work or the equivalent in 
experience; fluent French or Italian; 
citizenship; no relative in service; must 
serve one year. 
Stenographers. 

Refer to Y. W. C. A., 600 Lexington Avenue, 
New York, N. Y. 
Telephone operators. 

With knowledge of French. Quota filled 
through 1919. 



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VOCATIONAL TRAINING COURSES. 

Courses in Vocational Training. 

Refer to State Chairmen of Woman's Com- 
mittee of the Council of National Defense. 
Or National Service School, Woman's Service 
(Inc.), 1606 Twentieth Street NW., Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Courses open at Chautauqua, N. Y., July 
15, 1918. 
Employment Management in Factories. 

Refer to for general information, Employment 
Management Division of War Industries 
Board, 606 Council of Defense Building, 
Washington, D. C. 
For entrance to Intensive Training 
Courses: Harvard University, 6 weeks' 
course. Nextcourse begins June 24, 191-8. 
Expenses: No tuition fee if applicant 
enters at the instigation of some manu- 
facturer; if on her own responsibility, 
expenses consist of living expenses and 
about $16 for books. 
Or Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 

Course begins July 8, 1918. 
Or University of Rochester, N. Y. Sec- 
ond course will begin about September 
1, 1918. 
Requirements for entrance to Intensive 
Training Courses: age, at least 25 years; 
at least high-school education and 3 
years' experience in industry . For those 
who lack practical experience in actual 
factory processes and the technique of 
factory management, a preparatory 
course of two months is being prepared 
and will open in Pittsburgh, Pa., De- 
troit, Mich., or Cleveland, Ohio, about 
the 1st of July. Students will be paid 
beginner's wages by manufacturers in 
whose factories they are working. 
Health 0£B<cers for Factories. 

Refer to Mount Holyoke College, Mount Hol- 
yoke, Mass. 

Kind of work: Supervisor of health of 
women workers in factories. 



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Home Service. 

Refer to National Director of Red Cross, Home 
Service Institutes, 69 Schermerhorn Street, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Length of course: Six weeks. 
Librarians for Base Hospitals. 

Refer to Simmons College, Boston, Mass. 

Requirements: age, at least 25 years; at 
least high-school education; physical 
. fitness; a knowledge of books and some 
appreciation of library methods. 
Naval architecture (short courses in). 

Refer to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
University of Michigan, University of Cali- 
fornia, University of Washington, Univer- 
sity of Texas. 
Requirements: Graduation from tech- 
nical school or recommendation for 
graduation if a senior student. 
Psychiatric social service. 

Refer to Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 
Course opens July 8 for eight weeks, after 
which students are given six months' 
clinical training in hospitals. 
Aim of course : To fit social workers, teach- 
ers, nurses, college graduates to be of 
assistance to physicians in the care and 
treatment of mental and nervous cases. 
Secretaries, industrial. 

Refer to Biyn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
Requirements: A. B. degree. 
Nurses. 

Army Nursing School. 

Refer to Office of Surgeon General, War 
Department, Washington, D. C. 
No tuition. Students paid $15 per 

month and all living expenses. 
Requirements: Age, 21-35; good phys- 
ical and moral condition; high- 
school education or its equivalent. 
Length of course, 3 years. Credit of 
nine months given a college grad- 
uate. Special consideration given 
those who have taken courses in 
hygiene and home care of the sick. 
Part of training provided in mili- 
tary and other hospitals. First 
school opens at Walter Reed Hospi- 
tal, Washington, D . C. Other schools 
to be established at cantonment 
and camp base hospitals. 

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Kurses — Continued . 

Armx Nursing School — Continued. 

Or Training Camp for Nurses, Vassar Col- 
lege, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
Length of course, 3 months. 
Requirements: Graduation from col- 
lege; sound physical condition. 
Or Committee on Nursing, General Med- 
ical Board, Council of National Defense, 
Washington, D. C. 
Or Iowa State University, Iowa City, 

Iowa. 
Full college course not necessary. 
Or University of California, Berkeleyi 

Cal. 
Or Western Reserve University, Cleve- 
land, Ohio. 
Or Department of Nursing, Red Cross 
local divisional headquarters. 
Occupations to replace men. 

Refer to State chairman, Woman's Committee, 
Council of National Defense, in 
Arkansas. 
California. 
Colorado. 
Illinois. 
Louisiana. 
Maryland. 
Michigan. 
Minnesota. 
Mississippi. 
Missouri. 
Ohio. 

Oklahoma. 
Oregon. 
Pennsylvania. 
South Dakota. 
Tennessee. 
Wisconsin. 

Teachers of handicraft. 

Refer to Woman's Naval Service, Mdson 
House, 1606 Twentieth Street, Washington, 
D. C. 
Training in bookbinding, net work, bead 
work, basketry, weaving, wood carving, 
etc. 
Purpose of training: To teach disabled 
soldiers and sailors. 



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Telegraph operatives. 

Refer to telegraph companies in all large cities. 
Multiplex, Morse, and Telephone Tele- 
graph systems taught. 
Salary: $40 a month while in training. 
Course: 6 weeks to 12 weeks. 
Telephone operators. 

Courses given in all the large cities usually of 

three weeks' duration. 
Refer to local telephone companies. 



For temporary positions, paid and volunteer, 
trained and untrained, refer to State chair- 
man of the Woman's Committee, Council of 
National Defense. 

Or Red Cross local divisional headquarters. 

Or local or national Y. W. C. A. headquarters. 

Or any other national war organization. 



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STATE CHAIRMEN OF THE WOMAN'S 
COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL OF 
NATIONAL DEFENSE. 

Alabama: Mrs. James F. Hooper, Selma. 
Arizona: Mrs. Eugene Brady O'Neill, 701 North 

Central Avenue, Phoenix. 
Arkansas: Mrs. Joseph Frauenthal, Conway. 
California: Mrs. Herbert A. Cable, 719 South Hill 

Street, Los Angeles. 
Colorado: Mjs. W. H. Kistler, Room 230 State 

House, Denver. 
Connecticut: Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees, State 

Capitol, Hartford. 
Delaware, Mrs. Charles R. Miller, Wilmington. 
District of Columbia: Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, 509 

Wilkins Building, Washington. 
Florida: Mrs. William Hocker, Ocala. 
G-eorgia: Mrs. Samuel M. Inman, 552 Peach tree 

Street, Atlanta. 
Idaho: Mrs. Samuel N. Hays, 612 Franklin Street, 

Boise. 
Illinois: Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, 120 West Adams 

Street, Chicago. 
Indiana: Mrs. Charles A. Carlisle, Room 83, State 

House, Indianapolis. 
Iowa: Mrs. Francis E. Whitley, Webster City. 
Kansas: Mrs. D. W. Mulvane, Topeka. 
Kentucky, Mrs. Helm Bruce, 1411 Third Avenue, 

Louisville. 
Louisiana: Mrs. Arthur Browne Hammond, jr., 

Howard Annex, City Hall, New Orleans. 
Maine: Mrs. Frederick P. Abbott, Saco. 
Maryland: Mrs. Edward Shoemaker, 200 West 

Saratoga Street, Baltimore. 
Massachusetts: Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer, State 

House, Boston. 
Minnesota: Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, 2617 Dean 

Boulevard, Minneapolis. 
Michigan: Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane, Kala- 
mazoo. 
Mississippi: Mrs. Edward McGehee, Como. 
Missouri: Mrs. B. F. Bush, Railway Exchange 

Building, St. Louis. 
Montana: Mrs. Henry L. Sherlock, Helena. 



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Nebraska: Miss Sarka B. Hrbkova, 105 M. Arts 
Hall, Lincoln. 

Nevada: Mrs. Pearis Buckner Ellis, Carson City. 

New Hampshire: Mrs. Mary I. Wood, post-oflfice 
drawer 88, Portsmouth. 

New Jersey: Mrs. Charles W. Stockton, 164 Market 
Street, Newark. 

New Mexico: Mrs. Geo. W. Prichard, Santa Fe. 

New York: Mrs. Alexander Trowbridge, Room 
1100, 25 West 44th Street, New York. 

North Carolina: Mrs. Eugene Reilley, Charlotte. 

North Dakota: Mrs. Fred L. Conklin, 338 Federal 
Building, Bismarck. 

Ohio: Miss Belle Sherwin, State House, Columbus. 

Oklahoma: Mrs. Eugene B. Lawson, 518 East 
Osage Street, Nowata. 

Pennsylvania: Mrs. J. Willis Martin, seventh floor 
Finance Building, South Penn Square, Phila- 
delphia. 

Oregon: Mrs. Chas. H. Castner, Hood River. 

Rhode Island: Mrs. Rush Sturges, State House 
Annex, Providence. 

South Carolina: Mrs. F. Louise Mayes, Greenville. 

South Dakota: Dr. Helen S. Peabody, Sioux Falls. 

Tennessee: Mrs. George W. Denney, Knoxville. 

Texas: Mrs. Fred Fleming, 1934 North Carroll Ave- 
nue, Dallas. 

Utah: I^Irs. W. N. Williams, Bishop Building, 
Salt Lake City. 

Vermont: Mrs. Anna Hawkes Putman, Benning- 
ton. 

Virginia: Mrs. B. B. Mumford, 503 East Grace 
Street, Richmond. 

Washington: Mrs. J. S. McKee, Olympia. 

Wisconsin: Mrs. Henry H. Morgan, State House, 
Madison. 

Wyoming: Mrs. R. A. Morton, Cheyenne. 

West Virginia: Mrs. Joseph G. Cochran, 1016 Mar- 
ket Street, Parkersburg. 

Alaska: Mrs. Thomas J. Donohoe, Valdez. 

Hawaii: Mrs. John M. Dowsett, Box 555. Hono- 
lulu. 
Porto Rico: Mrs. Peter J, Hamilton, c/o United 
States District Court, San Juan. 



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DIVISIONAL HEADQUARTERS XT. S. 
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. 

Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South 
Carolina, Tennessee: 
Secretary of the United States Civil Service 
Board, Post OflBice, Atlanta, Gra. 
Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New 
Mexico, Utah: 
Secretary of the United States Civil Service 
Board, Post Office, San Francisco, r^al. 
Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma: 

Secretary of the United States Civil Service 
Board, Old Customhouse, St. Louis, Mo. 
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, 
Rhode Island, Vermont: 
Secretary of the United States Civil Service 
Board, Customhouse, Boston, Mass. 
Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania: 

Secretary of the United States Civil Service 
Board, Post Office, Philadelphia, Pa. 
District of Columbia, North Carolina, Virginia, 
West Virginia: 
Secretary of the United States Civil Service 
Board, Washington, D. C. 
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming: 
Secretary of the United States Civil Service 
Board, Post Office, Seattle, Wash. 
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin: 

Secretary of the United States Civil Service 
Board, Post Office, Chicago, 111. 
Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio: 

Secretary of the United States Civil Service 
Board, Post Office, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South 
Dakota: 
Secretary of the United States Civil Service 
Board, Post Office, St. Paul, Minn. 
Louisiana, Texas: 

Secretary of the United States Civil Service 
Board, Customhouse, New Orleans, La. 



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New York: 

Secretary of the United States Civil Service 

Board, Customhouse, New York, N. Y. 
Secretary of the United States Civil Service 

Board, Honolulu, Hawaii. 
Secretary of the United States Civil Service 

Board, Administration Building, Balboa 

Heights, Canal Zone. 
Chairman of the Porto Rican Civil Ser\'ice 

Commission, San Juan, P. R. 



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DIVISIONAL HEADQUARTEES 

AMERICAN BED CROSS. 

Northwestern: 
Washington. 
Oregon. 
Idaho. 

Seattle, Wash. 
Pacific: 

California. 

Nevada. 

Arizona. 

San Francisco, Cal. 
Mountain: 

Wyoming. 

Colorado. 

Utah. 

New Mexico. 

Denver, Colo. 
Northern- 
Montana. 
North Dakota. 
South Dakota. 
Minnesota. 

Minneapolis, Minn. 
Central: 

Nebraska. 

Iowa. ^ 

Wisconsin. 

Illinois. 

Michigan. 

Chicago, 111. 
Southwestern: 
Texas. 
Oklahoma. 
Kansas. 
Missouri. 
Arkansas. 

St. Louis, Mo. 
Gulf: 

Louisiana. 

Mississippi. 

Alabama. 

New Orleans, La. 

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Lake: 

Indiana. 

Ohio. 
Kentucky. 

Cleveland, Ohio. 
Southern: 

Tennessee. 
North Carolina. 
South Cai'olina. 
Georgia. 
Florida. 

Atlanta, Gra. 
Potomac: 
Virginia. 
West Virginia. 
Maryland. 
District of Columbia. 

Washington, D. C. 
Pennsylvania: 
Pennsylvania. 
Delaware. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 
Atlantic: 

New York. 
New Jersey. 
Connecticut. 

New York, N. Y. 
New England: 
Maine. 
Vermont. 
New Hampshire. 
Massachusetts. 
Rhode Island. 

Boston, Mass. 



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